After forty years of pushing corporate-friendly policy in state legislatures, this week the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is launching its new project aimed at doing the same at the local level. The director of the American City County Exchange (ACCE), Jon Russell, has been described as a “divisive” local government official, better known for pushing a national anti-immigrant agenda than for serving local interests and his constituents. ACCE’s first meeting will coincide with ALEC’s Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas this week. The creation of ACCE comes as national corporate and ideological interests increasingly try to exert influence over municipal government. For example, over the past year, David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity has spent money on the mayoral race in Coralville, Iowa, the Board of Supervisors election in Iron County, Wisconsin, and school board elections in Douglas County, Colorado and Kenosha, Wisconsin.

The Trump Crime Family

THE RIGHT-WING SHADOW GOVERNMENT — Illegal Covert Operations and Right-Wing Subversion of the Constitution

Offshore Tax Havens and Tax Dodging

Wealth Inequality — How Bad is It Really?

The Richest One Percent at its Worst

To see how the billionaire Koch brothers are trying to buy American democracy click here.

Trickle Down Economics, Voodoo Economics, Supply Side Economics — Whatever You Call It, It’s Been a Boon to the Richest One Percent and a Disaster for Everyone Else

"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.

Right-Wing Think Tanks

Billionaires like Charles and David Koch are funding far-right think tanks that produce highly flawed studies promoting policies that favor the richest one percent. For more on what the billionaires are up to click here.